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The segmentation of medical images is important for the improvement and creation of healthcare systems, particularly for early disease detection and treatment planning. In recent years, the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Siddharth Tiwari

Current medical image segmentation approaches have limitations in deeply exploring multi-scale information and effectively combining local detail textures with global contextual semantic information. This results in over-segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Zhenkun Lu , Chaoyin She , Wei Wang , Qinghua Huang

The U-shaped encoder-decoder architecture with skip connections has become a prevailing paradigm in medical image segmentation due to its simplicity and effectiveness. While many recent works aim to improve this framework by designing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Jing Huang , Yongkang Zhao , Yuhan Li , Zhitao Dai , Cheng Chen , Qiying Lai

Accurate medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in overall diagnosis and is one of the most essential tasks in the diagnostic pipeline. CNN-based models, despite their extensive use, suffer from a local receptive field and fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Zulkaif Sajjad , Furqan Shaukat , Junaid Mir

Structures suffer from the emergence of cracks, therefore, crack detection is always an issue with much concern in structural health monitoring. Along with the rapid progress of deep learning technology, image semantic segmentation, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Fangzheng Lin , Jiesheng Yang , Jiangpeng Shu , Raimar J. Scherer

Deep learning has shown great potential for automated medical image segmentation to improve the precision and speed of disease diagnostics. However, the task presents significant difficulties due to variations in the scale, shape, texture,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Asim Naveed , Erik Meijering

Medical image segmentation has made significant progress in recent years. Deep learning-based methods are recognized as data-hungry techniques, requiring large amounts of data with manual annotations. However, manual annotation is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Yi Lin , Yufan Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hao Chen

Convolutional blocks have played a crucial role in advancing medical image segmentation by excelling in dense prediction tasks. However, their inability to effectively capture long-range dependencies has limited their performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Siddhartha Mallick , Aayushman Ghosh , Jayanta Paul , Jaya Sil

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

Accurate medical image segmentation is crucial for diagnosis and analysis. However, the models without calibrated uncertainty estimates might lead to errors in downstream analysis and exhibit low levels of robustness. Estimating the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-16 Yanwu Yang , Xutao Guo , Yiwei Pan , Pengcheng Shi , Haiyan Lv , Ting Ma

Segmentation is one of the most significant steps in image processing. Segmenting an image is a technique that makes it possible to separate a digital image into various areas based on the different characteristics of pixels in the image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Sina Derakhshandeh , Ali Mahloojifar

Computer-aided segmentation methods can assist medical personnel in improving diagnostic outcomes. While recent advancements like UNet and its variants have shown promise, they face a critical challenge: balancing accuracy with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Abhijit Das , Debesh Jha , Vandan Gorade , Koushik Biswas , Hongyi Pan , Zheyuan Zhang , Daniela P. Ladner , Yury Velichko , Amir Borhani , Ulas Bagci

Background:Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN) and Vision Transformers(ViT) are the main techniques used in Medical image segmentation. However, CNN is limited to local contextual information, and ViT's quadratic complexity results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xuanyu Liu , Huiyun Yao , Jinggui Gao , Zhongyi Guo , Xue Zhang , Yulin Dong

Renal tumors, especially renal cell carcinoma (RCC), show significant heterogeneity, posing challenges for diagnosis using radiology images such as MRI, echocardiograms, and CT scans. U-Net based deep learning techniques are emerging as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Fnu Neha , Arvind K. Bansal

Accurate segmentation of organs or lesions from medical images is crucial for reliable diagnosis of diseases and organ morphometry. In recent years, convolutional encoder-decoder solutions have achieved substantial progress in the field of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Bingzhi Chen , Yishu Liu , Zheng Zhang , Guangming Lu , Adams Wai Kin Kong

While CNN-based methods have been the cornerstone of medical image segmentation due to their promising performance and robustness, they suffer from limitations in capturing long-range dependencies. Transformer-based approaches are currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Reza Azad , Yiwei Jia , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Julien Cohen-Adad , Dorit Merhof

Recently, the state-of-art models for medical image segmentation is U-Net and their variants. These networks, though succeeding in deriving notable results, ignore the practical problem hanging over the medical segmentation field:…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Hao Ziang , Jingsi Zhang , Lixian Li

The current state-of-the art techniques for image segmentation are often based on U-Net architectures, a U-shaped encoder-decoder networks with skip connections. Despite the powerful performance, the architecture often does not perform well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Asbjørn Munk , Ao Ma , Mads Nielsen

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks for 3D medical-image segmentation, the architectures currently used are still not robust enough to the protocols of different scanners, and the variety of image properties they produce.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Shrajan Bhandary , Zahra Babaiee , Dejan Kostyszyn , Tobias Fechter , Constantinos Zamboglou , Anca-Ligia Grosu , Radu Grosu

Melanoma is a dangerous form of skin cancer caused by the abnormal growth of skin cells. Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) approaches, including the U-Net architecture, can automatically segment skin lesions to aid diagnosis. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Sania Eskandari , Janet Lumpp